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James Shigeta

Acting · Born June 17, 1929 · Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA

James Saburo Shigeta (June 17, 1929 – July 28, 2014) was an American actor, singer, and musician of Japanese descent. He was noted for his roles in The Crimson Kimono (1959), Walk Like a Dragon (1960), Flower Drum Song (1961), Bridge to the Sun (1961), Die Hard (1988), and Mulan (1998). In 1960, he won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male, along with three other actors.

Movies with James Shigeta

• Mulan (1998) — General Li (voice)
• Die Hard (1988) — Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi
• Midway (1976) — Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
• Brother (2000) — Sugimoto
• The Yakuza (1974) — Goro
• Drive (1997) — Mr. Lau
• Lost Horizon (1973) — Brother To-Lenn
• Hollywood Chinese (2007) — Self
• Carol for Another Christmas (1964) — Japanese Doctor
• Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die (1994) — Det. Whoo
• The People I've Slept With (2010) — Charles Yang
• Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980) — Field Marshal Abehata

TV shows with James Shigeta

• Once an Eagle (1976) — Lin Tso-Han